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A Facebook user recently uploaded a picture of a flyer displayed in the bathroom stall of Lemon Tree Hotel, Bengaluru. The flyer, which carried the logo of the hotel, sought to 'humour' its customers with a joke' that almost condones rape. The joke, which was about consent in sex and violence, went promptly viral. The Lemon Tree Hotel, Bengaluru insisted that it was a part of the 'fun element' of their brand.

Even as the slapping of sedition charges against university students, a human rights organisation, and a former lawmaker for her comments on Pakistan, has sparked public outrage and triggered debate about intolerance in the country, the latest crime data shows that cases of sedition actually fell from 2014 to 2015. New reports show that total of 30 sedition cases were registered in 2015, which is 17 less than what were registered in 2014, according to the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau.

Opinion

If Indian companies want to avoid blowouts such as Welspun, they need to look at investments in quality processes as an integral part of their brand-building exercise, writes Sundeep Khanna in Mint. A September 2015 report, titled Make in India: How Manufacturing in India Can Become Globally Competitive, by management consultant AT Kearney recommends: In the medium term, OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) should invest in building quality into their designs, so that it is easier for lower-skilled suppliers to ensure quality. This can be further improved by investing in fixtures and poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) for suppliers to reduce quality issues. However, the best results will come from a long-term approach, focused on suppliers and supply relationships. These relationships should have built-in incentives and mandates for lean improvements that will result in quality and cost improvements across the entire value chain," he writes.

If a relationship is to be anything more than a temporary marriage of convenience, the 'Muslim community' must be broken by caste just as its Hindu version has been, writes Faisal Devji in The Hindu. "Let me be clear that what I am advocating is not the standard separation of religion and politics, or the secular and the communal, which tend to be shifting and in any case polemical categories rather than sociological ones. My argument rather is that the "Muslim community" is an anti-political entity by definition, and not simply due to its poor leadership, hierarchical organisation and lack of unity, as many within it imagine. For a demographic majority religious unity may become politically salient but is not crucial to its dominance, however for a minority emphasising such a unity can be damaging. Indeed, it is the absence of a diverse Muslim politics that has, at least in part, allowed for the occasional emergence of Islamist militancy in India, so the issue is not one of depoliticising Islam but re-politicising Muslims. And it is because the conventional if indirect way of doing so, through clientage, enjoys diminishing returns, that the Dalit example has proven so attractive," he says.

Maneka Gandhi's reservations on paternity leave are based on gender stereotypes, writes Amrita Nandy in The Indian Express. "While the minister's stress on evidence is well-founded and so is her concern about men's role in childcare, should she be waiting for a change in the norm before drawing up a policy? Perhaps a substantive paternity leave will foster possibilities for a turnaround," she writes.